Yong Lin
Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data
Responsibility
- Responsible for EBAS data workflow from data producers to ingestion in the data base: Call for data, data curation, templates with close contact with data procedures
- Responsible for EVDC data management and operations: EVDC Create and develop templates and GEOMS tool, generate monitoring plots, user support
- ACTRIS DC in-situ contact person in the ACTRIS Topical Centre CiGAS
- EBAS data curation and QAQC responsible for most trace gas components and a selected aerosol components
- Very active in training and support in data submission and QAQC within ACTRIS, EBAS and EVDC
Hai-Ying Liu
Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, senior scientist at NILU, combines ecological expertise with a passion for sustainable urban development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Protection from Inner Mongolia University, China, and a PhD in Environmental Biology from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Liu specializes in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based solutions to enhance environmental quality and public health. Her approach is both interdisciplinary and integrative, tackling the complex challenges of climate change, urban development, and public health. She is particularly focused on fostering community engagement and utilizing multi-actor participatory methods to drive environmental behaviour changes and promote health.
Dr. Liu started at NILU with a postdoctoral fellowship between 2007 and 2008, focusing on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on forest biodiversity. During this time, she also played key role in managing and coording several EU projects. Currently, her work is driven by a vision to integrate environmental quality with urban living, aiming to transform cities into resilient and healthy spaces for future generations. As a senior scientist, Dr. Liu actively leads and support coordination of EU projects and proposals. She also contributes her expertise to NILU’s grants office and sever as an evaluator for both EU and national proposals and projects.
Robert André Logna
Robert André Logna is a senior system developer in the Digital Technologies department.
He is a specialist in client-server technology. Robert is motivated by developing robust, maintainable and scalable information systems.
His areas of interest are mainly distributed processing systems/frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark/HBase/YARN) and development/implementation of machine learning models in such systems.
Eleonora Marta Longhin
Dr. Eleonora Longhin is a senior scientist at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects. She is a biologist with expertise in (advanced) in vitro models for assessing the toxicological effects and mechanisms of action of airborne particulate matter (PM), nanomaterials and other emerging contaminants. Her competencies include predictive toxicology, mode of action analysis, and the integration of mechanistic hazard data into Next-Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) frameworks.
A key focus of her recent work is the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach, embedding safety considerations from the earliest stages of chemicals and materials development. In this context, she contributes to defining testing strategies, developing mechanistic hazard assessment methods, and translating toxicological evidence into recommendations that minimize risks throughout the product life cycle. Through the European projects PROPLANET, ANALYST and PARC, Dr. Longhin actively collaborates with industrial partners, regulators, and academic institutions to ensure that innovative materials meet both performance and safety requirements in line with European policy objectives.
Beyond her research, she has played pivotal roles in large-scale collaborative initiatives, acting as project manager for the H2020 project RiskGONE and serving as Principal Investigator, task or Work Package leader, for several national and international projects. She is also a member of the Toxicology Section Board of the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT).
Susana Lopez-Aparicio
Dr Susana López-Aparicio is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Urban Environment and Industry department at NILU, where she coordinates research and activities related to air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions.
With over 10 years of experience on emission modelling, her work focuses on developing high spatial and temporal resolution models to support air pollution control, climate mitigation strategies, and urban sustainability. She has led key projects delivering high-resolution gridded emissions for Norway, including the NordicWelfAir, NordSmoke, and EMISYS projects, and advanced emission models for residential wood consumption (METVED model).
Her main goal is to advance scientific knowledge and address environmental challenges faced by public authorities and the private sector. She has managed research projects targeting emissions from diverse sectors, including biofuels, biomass burning, construction machinery, transport hubs (e.g., port and airport), and tourism.
She also serves as reviewer and lead reviewer of national emission inventories submitted under the UNECE Convention of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), and the National Emission reduction Commitment Directive (NEC Directive).
She has coauthored 44 peer-reviewed publications, and her h-index is 25 (Google Scholar; December 2024).
Jan Øyvind Låte
Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data
- Tech Lead at Centre for Atmospheric Data with overview of our operational technologies and strategy for development
Responsibility
- Software developer, backend, some frontend, various use and applications, strong expertise on (cyber) security systems
- Overview of our operational technologies, propose adjustments and new technologies when needed, and coordinate within the centre. This includes mapping and developing better procedures for operational security
- Involved in all back-end programming and architecture for EBAS and ACTRIS, supporting key developers
- Expert user of Airflow in support of the team and NILU
Xiaoxiong Ma
Xiaoxiong Ma is a Senior Engineer at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects.
He is a molecular biologist with expertise in gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9), in vitro human and animal tissue models, stem cell models, microscopy, histology, RNA sequencing, gene expression, cell differentiation, and a wide range of in vitro toxicology assays.
Since 2022, he has worked as an engineer at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, in the Department of Biobanks, where he contributed to studies related to MoBa (the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study), and in parallel in the Department of Chemical Toxicology, where he performed laboratory work supporting the revision of the in vivo comet assay (OECD Test Guideline 489) to include analyses of male germ cells.
In 2024, Xiaoxiong joined NILU, working with PROPLANET, an EU Horizon Europe project developing safe, sustainable PFAS-free coatings for textiles, food packaging, and glass, with a focus on health-related toxicology endpoints.